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From: James Smart <james.smart-laKkSmNT4hbQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] RFC: The be2iscsi driver support for bsg
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:16:31 -0400
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FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> If vendors use the common data structures via bsg, it's totally fine
> by me. I see why bsg is preferable. The only thing that I care about
> is managing any iSCSI HBA with iscsiadm instead of various vendor
> specific utilities.

agreed

> About the implementation, I think that it's better to have the common
> library code rather than just copying the fs bsg code into iscsi.

Note: I tried to library-ize the transport implementation on the first pass of 
the RFC. But it was making things more complex.  I tried to explain this, 
perhaps not very well (http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=125725904205688&w=2).

-- james s

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